ecaccess-file-dir command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

ecaccess-file-dir: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecaccess-file-dir: command not found

Solutions to ecaccess-file-dir: command not found

How To Fix ecaccess-file-dir: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ecaccess-file-dir is provided by ecaccess package.

ecaccess is:

ecaccess is a suite of client tools to enable access to the computing and data archive facilities of the European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasts (ECMWF).

Strict authentication is performed in a uniform way using SecurID cards and standard (X509) certificates. SSL is used to guarantee the integrity of the application data, the transferred jobs and the monitoring information.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install ecaccess

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install ecaccess.

sudo apt -y install ecaccess

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install ecaccess

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ecaccess-file-dir command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.